Following the saga of episodes on programming languages today your co-hosts,

Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) and Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic),

have the honor to talk to Jon Wayne Parrott (https://twitter.com/jonparrott),

a Developer Programs Engineer at Google Cloud Platform, about Python on the cloud.

About Jon Wayne

Jon Wayne (https://twitter.com/jonparrott) focuses on the Python developer experience

for Google Cloud Platform. He’s an active contributor to multiple open-source Python

projects.

Cool things of the week

* Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/Google-Cloud-Platform-is-the-first-cloud-provider-to-offer-Intel-Skylake.html)

* GPUs are now available for Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/GPUs-are-now-available-for-Google-Compute-Engine-and-Cloud-Machine-Learning.html)

* Developer Advocates offer up their favorite Google Cloud NEXT 17 sessions blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/developer-advocates-offer-up-their-favorite-Google-Cloud-NEXT-17-sessions.html)

Interviews

* Python on Google Cloud Platform cloud.google.com/python (https://cloud.google.com/python)

* Python on App Engine Standard Environment docs (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python)

* Python on App Engine Flexible Environment docs (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python)

* A skeleton for creating Python applications using the Flask framework on App Engine GitHub (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-flask-skeleton)

Question of the week

* Can I send emails as part of a Cloud Datastore transaction?

No, but you can use Task Queues docs (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/datastore/transactions)

Where can you find us next?

Mark is today at GDC (http://www.gdconf.com/) and afterwards he’ll be speaking at

Cloud NEXT (https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/schedule#target=building-massive-online-worlds-with-spatialos-and-google-cloud-platform-0cb0ec52-b735-4403-9fc5-071f1759dd1c), both in San Francisco.

Francesc is coming back from Gophercon India (http://www.gophercon.in) and on his way to

Cloud NEXT (https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/schedule#target=google-cloud-endpoints-serving-your-api-to-the-world-8eaeb271-f0ea-4638-af94-16c0b2b80bf6).(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/G2uZdeOeDNk)